Building Animation and Storytelling

Business teams and analysts are commonly responsible for sharing or "walking through" business results, trends, and the findings from their analyses with other stakeholders, such as senior management. To support the message delivery process most effectively, Power BI provides built-in animation capabilities for the standard scatter chart and ArcGIS map visualization types. Additionally, core and custom visuals, such as the pulse chart, further aid the storytelling process by embedding user-defined annotations into the visual and providing full playback control over the animation.

"We're bringing storytelling into Power BI. We're making Power BI into the PowerPoint for data."

– Amir Netz, Microsoft Technical Fellow

This recipe includes examples for preparing the standard Scatter chart visualization for animation, leveraging the date animation feature of the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI visual. Details...